As a director, actor, writer and producer, Tod Browning was one of the most dynamic Hollywood figures during the birth of commercial cinema. Known for his fantastic collaborations with Lon Chaney in numerous silents, and for directing the horror classic Dracula and the still-controversial Freaks, Browning has been called "the Edgar Allan Poe of the cinema." Despite not entering the profession until he began acting in his early thirties, he went on to helm more than 60 films in a 25-year career. His work continues to influence directors such as David Lynch, John Waters, and Alejandro…mehr
As a director, actor, writer and producer, Tod Browning was one of the most dynamic Hollywood figures during the birth of commercial cinema. Known for his fantastic collaborations with Lon Chaney in numerous silents, and for directing the horror classic Dracula and the still-controversial Freaks, Browning has been called "the Edgar Allan Poe of the cinema." Despite not entering the profession until he began acting in his early thirties, he went on to helm more than 60 films in a 25-year career. His work continues to influence directors such as David Lynch, John Waters, and Alejandro Jodorowsky. These essays critically explore such topics as the connection between Browning, Poe and Kant; Browning's cinematic techniques; disability; masochism; sound and suspense; duality; parenthood; narrative and cinematic trickery; George Melford; surrealism; and the occult. A Browning filmography is included.
Bernd Herzogenrath is a professor of American literature and culture and teaches at the University of Hannover and the University of Cologne, Germany.
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Table of Contents Introduction: Browning = Poe + Kant + ... = Cinema BERND HERZOGENRATH Undoing Make-Believe: The Magic of Cinema in Tod Browning's Films EKKEHARD KNÖRER In Love with a Nightmare: Disability Imagery and Fascination in The Unknown HIONI KARAMANOS Cinematic Torture Machines: Tod Browning and Masochism LARS NOWAK Shaking an Elephant: Sound, Space and Suspense in The Unholy Three MICHAEL LAWRENCE The Black Bird: Mocking Duality F. GWYNPLAINE MACINTYRE Seeing Through Seeing Through: The Trompe l'Oeil Effect and Bodily Difference in the Cinema of Tod Browning HUGH S. MANON The Big City: All of Browning's Universe in One Film F. GWYNPLAINE MACINTYRE Lost in Proto-Performance: West of Zanzibar and the Last Stand of the Primal Father BJÖRN QUIRING You're Better Off Without Your Parents: Where East Is East Seen Through a Daughter's Eyes SARAH DELLMANN Tod Browning vs. George Melford: Dracula's Doppelgänger FRANK LAFOND Browning. Freak. Woman. Stain. EUGENIE BRINKEMA Mark of the Vampire: Seeing Is Believing REYNOLD HUMPHRIES An Incident in the History of Surrealism: On a Sequence in The Devil-Doll ADRIAN MARTIN Miracles for Sale and Other Films of Detection and the Occult MARCEL ARBEIT Filmography About the Contributors Index
Table of Contents Introduction: Browning = Poe + Kant + ... = Cinema BERND HERZOGENRATH Undoing Make-Believe: The Magic of Cinema in Tod Browning's Films EKKEHARD KNÖRER In Love with a Nightmare: Disability Imagery and Fascination in The Unknown HIONI KARAMANOS Cinematic Torture Machines: Tod Browning and Masochism LARS NOWAK Shaking an Elephant: Sound, Space and Suspense in The Unholy Three MICHAEL LAWRENCE The Black Bird: Mocking Duality F. GWYNPLAINE MACINTYRE Seeing Through Seeing Through: The Trompe l'Oeil Effect and Bodily Difference in the Cinema of Tod Browning HUGH S. MANON The Big City: All of Browning's Universe in One Film F. GWYNPLAINE MACINTYRE Lost in Proto-Performance: West of Zanzibar and the Last Stand of the Primal Father BJÖRN QUIRING You're Better Off Without Your Parents: Where East Is East Seen Through a Daughter's Eyes SARAH DELLMANN Tod Browning vs. George Melford: Dracula's Doppelgänger FRANK LAFOND Browning. Freak. Woman. Stain. EUGENIE BRINKEMA Mark of the Vampire: Seeing Is Believing REYNOLD HUMPHRIES An Incident in the History of Surrealism: On a Sequence in The Devil-Doll ADRIAN MARTIN Miracles for Sale and Other Films of Detection and the Occult MARCEL ARBEIT Filmography About the Contributors Index
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